Geremia Bonomelli

Geremia Bonomelli (born September 22, 1831 in Nigoline ; † August 3, 1914 there ) was an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Cremona and a member of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He was also an honorary member of the Kraus Society .

Life

Bonomelli came from a farming family who lived in the Po Valley . His parents were the small farmer Giacomo Bonomelli and his wife Antonia Zanola.

After attending school in Lovere Geremia Bonomelli studied theology in Brescia , and received on 2 June 1855, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then completed his theological studies in Rome and, on his return, taught at the seminary of the diocese of Brescia . From 1866 he worked as a pastor in Lovere.

On October 27, 1871 Geremia Bonomelli was appointed Bishop of Cremona. He was ordained bishop on November 26th of the same year in Brescia by Girolamo Verzeri , Bishop of Brescia; Co- consecrators were Pietro Luigi Speranza , Bishop of Bergamo , and Alessandro Valsecchi , Auxiliary Bishop in Brescia.

Geremia Bonomelli died in his hometown of Nigoline, which has belonged to the municipality of Corte Franca since 1929 , and was initially buried in the Cremona cemetery. In 1920 his body was transferred to the Cathedral of Cremona and buried there.

Act

Through diverse engagement, he came into contact with a wide variety of groups and often represented controversial positions. He sought a reconciliation between the Vatican and the Italian state, advocated a rapprochement between church and culture and became known abroad because he founded the work of the international welfare for Italians ( Opera d'assistza degli emigranti ). In this context he came to Germany in 1901.

Bonomelli's pastoral letter from 1905, La Chiesa ei tempi nuovi (Eng. The Church and the New Era ), in which he approved the separation of church and state that took place in France in that year and understood it as a pastoral possibility for the Church, caused a great sensation and brought about him in sharp contrast to Pope Pius X.

Honors

A number of squares and streets in Italy are named after Geremia Bonomelli:

• Piazza Geremia Bonomelli in Rome
• Piazza Geremia Bonomelli in Milan
• Via Geremia Bonomelli in Como
• Via Geremia Bonomelli in Bergamo

and more.

literature

• Giuseppe Gallina: Il problema religioso nel Risorgimento e il pensiero di Geremia Bonomelli. Rome 1974.
• W. Koch: Bonomelli In: LThK 1 , Vol. 2, Col. 467.
• C. Marcora (Ed.): Carteggio Scalabrini-Bonomelli 1868-1905. Rome 1983.
• Il Vescovo Geremia Bonomelli 80 anni dopo. Atti delle celebrazioni. Cremona 1995.
• Geremia Bonomelli e il suo tempo. Atti del convegno storico tenuto dal 16 al 19 ottobre 1996. Brescia 1999.
• Carlo Cattaneo: Monsignor Geremia Bonomelli e la contessa Giuseppina Neuroni Prati Morosini , Missaglia, ISBN 88-86832-47-8 .
• Francesco Malgeri:  BONOMELLI, Geremia. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 12:  Bonfadini – Borrello. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1970.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hughes Oliphant Old: The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church . tape 6 : The Modern Age . Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8028-3139-2 , pp. 33 f . (English, 997 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed on February 16, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Francesco Malgeri:  BONOMELLI, Geremia. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 12. Rome 1970.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Geremia Bonomelli on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Antonio Novasconi	Bishop of Cremona 1871–1914	Giovanni Cazzani